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Notably, the bank in question wasn't bothered by restrictions on the property when granting the business loan. Nor did the bank ever have to find out.

(Native level two romance languages. Very poor French, but I can obviously read it with two Latin languages and 8 years of schooling) Oh I agree that the translator understood the …

I do believe it was the Mar a Lago, yes. Trump's valuation was eye watering, I still can't believe it, but the market players agreed to it. The banks agreed to the valuation and un…

For starters break up their companies. We did it for standard oil, we did it for AT&T.

massive costs. Turns out people resent having their school board guess what their taxes ought to be.

Glad you asked. There's the obvious three ways to finance government: - Taxes - debt financing - seignorage The latter two aren't taxes, but people end up paying for the expenses a…

but because the natives (metis) spoke French by the time the Brits got there.

"English is not spoken here" would work well. The "on" is impersonal and quite different from "nous". I think a translation should reflect the universality of the statement.

As a separatist-sympathizer, I get it.... but instead of obsessing over teaching French to English kids, you'd think they could set up programs to teach their own kids to speak Fre…

(Raised (fake) Canadian, living in the US) I was in Canada last week and I saw a bunch of (real) English and (real) French Canadians. It dawned on me that the French Canadians rese…

"but if it involves NATO, I would expect that’s being employed" Why would that be your expectation?

"Also paying taxes is a public good, even if you’re exceptionally wealthy." Can be a public good if it's spent well. The US has spent how many trillions killing innocents the last …

Because that detail, like the $100milliom limit are irrelevant details subject to change. (Most) People have the ability to synthesize issue and are worried of the proposal's funda…

Admitting they withheld pertinent and embarrassing information from the public to protect the government is far-right?

No, I think they believe the alternatives are far worse.

Ppl's obsessions (on both sides) on taxes is so weird. Governments can fund themselves in numerous ways, not just taxes. Either way you'll pay. The key issue is do we want a federa…

The $100M is an arbitrary number. It can go up, it can go down. It will be eroded by inflation and almost certainly not be indexed or indexed to a number controlled by bureaucrats.…

1. Properties are bought/sold constantly around most people's homes. Evaluating a home price is not that hard, compared evaluating how much the remains of the car that Ted Kennedy …

Great example. The art is very valuable, financially, because people are willing to pay for it. However, absent the market clearing the asset, its value is impossible to objectivel…

That's an estimate to enable business to go on based what the bank is willing to risk. For the proposal to work you would need an estimate good to within less a percent. Or lawsuit…

Few things are easy. Some problems with your proposal: 1. Assumes the asset in question is publicly traded. 2. Assumes the publicly traded asset has a non trivial amount of trade v…

The US government burns money unproductively like California wild fire through a citrus field. And there are better ways to deal with our oligarchs than braids dead proposals. Star…

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(Aside on why I appear blasé: I grew up riding across a heavily trafficked bridge to get to school that was aggressively but unsuccessfully bombed by the allies. They once found a …